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自我转变的关键【TED演讲】 p01 中英双语 (P1)

发布于 2026-09-06 · 时长 18:25

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时间	英文	中文
0:01	After the publication of my first book, The 48 Laws of Power,	在我出版第一本书《48条权力法则》之后
0:06	I began to receive requests for advice from people in every conceivable profession	我开始收到来自每个职业的咨询请求
0:14	and at every level of experience.	和在每一个层次的经验。
0:17	Over the years, I have now personally consulted with over a hundred different people.	多年来,我亲自与一百多人进行了协商。
0:23	And in so many of the cases, the following scenario would play itself out.	而在很多情况下,以下的情景都会出现。
0:30	They would come to me with a specific problem, a boss from hell,	他们会来找我一个特殊的问题 一个来自地狱的老板
0:36	a business relationship that had turned ugly, a promotion that never came.	生意关系变得丑陋 升迁从未到来
0:43	I would slowly direct their attention away from the boss and the job	我会慢慢地引导他们的注意力 远离老板和工作
0:48	and instead get them to search inside themselves	让他们自己去搜
0:52	and try to find the emotional root of their discontent.	试着找到他们不满情绪的根源

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序号	英文	中文
1	After the publication of my first book, The 48 Laws of Power,	在我出版第一本书《48条权力法则》之后
2	I began to receive requests for advice from people in every conceivable profession	我开始收到来自每个职业的咨询请求
3	and at every level of experience.	和在每一个层次的经验。
4	Over the years, I have now personally consulted with over a hundred different people.	多年来,我亲自与一百多人进行了协商。
5	And in so many of the cases, the following scenario would play itself out.	而在很多情况下,以下的情景都会出现。
6	They would come to me with a specific problem, a boss from hell,	他们会来找我一个特殊的问题 一个来自地狱的老板
7	a business relationship that had turned ugly, a promotion that never came.	生意关系变得丑陋 升迁从未到来
8	I would slowly direct their attention away from the boss and the job	我会慢慢地引导他们的注意力 远离老板和工作
9	and instead get them to search inside themselves	让他们自己去搜
10	and try to find the emotional root of their discontent.	试着找到他们不满情绪的根源
11	Often, as we talked it out, they would realize that at their core,	通常,当我们谈论它, 他们会意识到,在核心,
12	they felt deeply frustrated.	他们感到很沮丧。
13	Their creativity was not being realized, their careers had somehow taken a wrong turn.	他们的创造力没有实现,他们的事业不知何故走错了方向。
14	What they actually wanted was something larger,	他们真正想要的是更大的东西,
15	a real and substantial change in their careers and in their lives.	他们的事业和生活都发生了真正的实质性变化。
16	It would be at this point that I would tell them a story about myself,	此时此刻,我会告诉他们一个关于我自己的故事,
17	about my own peculiar path to change and transformation,	关于我改变和转变的奇特道路
18	from a highly unsuccessful writer eking out an existence in a small one-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica	一个非常不成功的作家在圣莫尼卡 一间一间一间单人房的公寓里
19	to best-selling author seemingly overnight.	给畅销的作者看似一夜之间。
20	I have never publicly related this story before,	我以前从没公开提到过这个故事
21	but for this very special occasion, my first TED Talk,	但对于这个非常特殊的时刻, 我的第一次TED演讲,
22	I thought I would share it with you because it's actually very relevant to this subject of change.	我想和你们分享它,因为它实际上与这个变化的主题非常相关。
23	The story goes like this.	故事是这样的
24	I had known since my early age that I wanted to become a writer.	我从小就想成为作家
25	I just couldn't figure out what I wanted to write.	我只是不知道我想写什么
26	Perhaps it was novels or essays or plays.	也许是小说、散文或戏剧
27	After university, I drifted into journalism as a way to at least make a living while writing.	大学毕业后,我开始从事新闻工作,至少是在写作时谋生。
28	Then one day, after several years of working as a writer and editor,	然后有一天,在做作家和编辑几年之后,
29	I was having lunch with a man who had just edited an article I had written for a magazine.	我和一个刚编辑我为杂志写的文章的人共进午餐
30	After downing his third martini, this editor, an older man,	在打倒他的第三个马提尼之后,这个编辑,一个老人,
31	finally admitted to me why he had asked me to lunch.	终于承认他为什么让我吃午饭了
32	You should seriously consider a different career, he told me.	他告诉我,你应该认真考虑不同的职业
33	You are not writer material.	你不是写作的材料。
34	Your work is too undisciplined.	你的工作太没纪律了
35	Your style is too bizarre.	你的风格太奇怪了
36	Your ideas, they're just not relatable to the average.	你的想法,它们只是不能与普通人相适应。
37	Go to law school, Robert.	去法学院,罗伯特。
38	Go to business school.	去商学院吧
39	Spare yourself the pain.	少烦恼.
40	At first, these words were like a punch in the stomach.	起初,这些话就像打在胃里一样.
41	But in the months to come, I realized something about myself.	但在接下来的几个月里,我意识到了一些关于自己的事情.
42	I had entered a career that just didn't really suit me, mostly as a way to make a living.	我进入了一个并不适合我的事业, 大多是为了谋生。
43	And my work reflected this incompatibility.	我的工作反映了这种不相容性。
44	I had to get out of journalism.	我不得不离开新闻界
45	This realization initiated a period of wandering in my life.	这种认识在我生命中开始了一段徘徊的时期.
46	I traveled all across Europe.	我遍游欧洲
47	I worked every conceivable job.	我做了所有可以想象的工作。
48	I did construction work in Greece, taught English in Barcelona,	我在希腊做建筑工作 在巴塞罗那教英语
49	worked as a hotel receptionist in Paris, a tour guide in Dublin,	在巴黎做酒店接待员 都柏林的导游
50	served as a trainee for an English company making television documentaries,	担任英国公司制作电视纪录片的学员,
51	living not far from here in Brixton.	住在离布里克斯顿不远的地方
52	During all of this time, I wrote several novels that never made it past a hundred pages	在这段时间里,我写了几本小说 从未超过一百页
53	and dozens of essays that I would tear up and plays that never got produced.	和几十篇论文,我会撕裂 和演奏从未制作。
54	I wandered back to Los Angeles, California, where I was born and raised.	我回到加州洛杉矶 在那里出生长大
55	I worked in a detective agency, among other odd jobs.	我在侦探事务所工作 还有其他零工
56	I entered the film business, working as an assistant to a director,	我进入了电影行业 作为导演的助手
57	as a researcher and story developer and screenwriter.	作为研究员和故事开发者和编剧.
58	In these long years of wandering, I had totaled over 50 different jobs.	在这漫长的流浪岁月里,我总共从事了50多项不同的工作。
59	By the year 1995, my parents, God bless them,	到1995年,我的父母, 上帝保佑他们,
60	were beginning to get seriously worried about me.	开始很担心我
61	I was 36 years old, and I seemed lost and unable to settle into anything.	我当时36岁,我似乎迷路了,无法安顿下来。
62	I too had moments of doubt, but I did not feel lost.	我也有怀疑的时刻,但我并没有感到迷路。
63	I was searching and exploring, and I was hungry for experiences,	我在寻找和探索 我渴望经验
64	and I was continuously writing.	我不停地写作。
65	That same year, while in Italy for yet another job,	同年,在意大利做另一份工作时
66	I met a man there named Joost Elfers, a packager and producer of books.	我在那里遇到了一个叫Joost Elfers的人 一个书的包装者和制作人
67	One day, while we were walking along the Cays of Venice,	有一天,当我们沿着威尼斯礁行走时,
68	Joost asked me if I had any ideas for a book.	乔斯特问我有没有书的想法
69	Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, an idea just gushed out of me.	突然间 突然突然冒出一个想法
70	It was about power.	这是关于权力。
71	I told Joost that I was constantly reading books and history,	我告诉乔斯特我一直在读书和历史
72	and the stories that I read of Julius Caesar and the Borgias and Louis XIV,	我读过尤利乌斯·凯撒 博吉亚和路易十四的故事
73	these were the exact same stories that I had personally witnessed	这些跟我亲眼目睹的一样
74	with my own eyes in all of my different jobs, only less bloody.	以我自己的眼睛 在我的所有不同的工作, 只是少血腥。
75	People want power, and they want to disguise this wanting of power,	人们想要权力, 他们想伪装这种权力的匮乏,
76	and so they play games.	所以他们玩游戏。
77	They covertly manipulate and intrigue,	他们暗中操纵和阴谋
78	all the while presenting a nice, even saintly front.	展示一个美好的,甚至圣洁的正面。
79	I would expose these games.	我会揭露这些游戏
80	I gave him numerous examples of what I meant,	我给了他很多我意思的例子
81	and he became increasingly excited.	他变得越来越兴奋。
82	He said I should write a treatment, and if it was good enough,	他说我应该写一个治疗, 如果它足够好,
83	he would pay me to live while I wrote half the book,	他会付我钱让我活下来 而我写了一半的书
84	enough to sell it to a publisher.	足够卖给出版商了
85	Suddenly, in writing what would become the 48 Laws of Power,	突然间 写下了48项权力法则
86	everything in my disjointed past seemed to click into place,	我过去的一切 似乎都闪闪发光
87	like magic, like destiny.	像魔法一样 像命运一样
88	All of those various writing experiences, the journalism, the television,	所有这些不同的写作经历,新闻,电视,
89	the theater, the film, had given me the skills to tell stories	剧场,电影,给了我讲故事的技能
90	and organize my thoughts.	组织我的思想
91	All of that reading of history had given me a vast storehouse	所有的历史读物给了我一个巨大的仓库
92	of ideas that I could draw upon,	我可以利用的想法,
93	and my work as a researcher had taught me how to find the perfect anecdote.	我的研究者教我如何找到完美的传闻
94	Even those different, seemingly random jobs had exposed me	即使是那些不同的,看似随机的工作 也暴露了我
95	to every type of psychology and to the dark corners of the human psyche.	以及人类心灵的黑暗角落
96	Even the languages I learned while traveling	即使是旅行时学到的语言
97	had taught me patience and discipline.	教会了我耐心和纪律。
98	All of these experiences added up to rich layers of knowledge and practice	所有这些经验加在一起丰富多彩的知识和实践
99	that had altered me from the inside out.	从内心改变我
100	In my own very weird and intuitive way,	以我自己非常奇怪和直觉的方式,
101	I had given myself the perfect education for the writing of the 48 Laws of Power.	我给自己 完美的教育 写48条权力法则。
102	The book came out in 1998, and it was a success.	该书于1998年出版,获得了成功.
103	The course of my life was forever altered.	我一生的历程永远被改变
104	Now, the moral of this story, as I told the people who would come to me for advice,	现在,这个故事的道德, 正如我告诉人们 谁会来找我的建议,
105	and as I'm telling you now, is the following.	正如我现在告诉你的,下面是:
106	We humans tend to fixate on what we can see with our eyes.	我们人类往往把目光放在眼里
107	It is the most animal part of our nature.	这是我们本性中最动物的部分.
108	When we look at the changes and transformations in other people's lives,	当我们看别人生活中的变化和转变时,
109	we see the good luck that someone had in meeting a person like Yost	我们看见有人在遇到像Yost这样的人时的好运
110	with all of the right connections and the funding.	与所有正确的联系和资金。
111	We see the book or the project that brings the money and the attention.	我们看到了引起金钱和关注的书或项目.
112	In other words, we see the visible signs of opportunity and success	换句话说,我们看到机会和成功的明显迹象
113	change in our own lives, but we are grasping at an illusion.	改变我们自己的生活, 但我们抓住了一种幻觉。
114	What really allows for such dramatic changes	真正允许这种戏剧性变化的原因
115	are the things that occur on the inside of a person and are completely invisible.	是发生在人体内 完全看不见的东西
116	The slow accumulation of knowledge and skills,	知识和技能的缓慢积累,
117	the incremental improvements in work habits and the ability to withstand criticism.	工作习惯的逐步改善和承受批评的能力。
118	Any change in people's fortune is merely the visible manifestation	任何改变人们的财富 只是明显的表现
119	of all of that deep preparation over time.	历经漫长的准备
120	By essentially ignoring this internal invisible aspect,	基本上忽略了这个内在的无形方面,
121	we fail to change anything fundamental within ourselves.	我们无法改变我们内部任何根本的东西。
122	And so in a few years' time, we reach our limits yet again,	所以几年后 我们又到了极限
123	we grow frustrated, we crave change, we grab at something quick and superficial,	我们变得沮丧,我们渴望改变, 我们抓住的东西快速和肤浅,
124	and we remain prisoners forever of these recurring patterns in our lives.	而我们永远被囚禁 在我们生活中这些反复出现的模式。
125	The answer, the key to the ability to transform ourselves	答案 转变自我的能力的关键
126	is actually insanely simple, to reverse this perspective.	其实是疯狂的简单, 来扭转这个观点。
127	Stop fixating on what other people are saying and doing	别老是想着别人在说什么
128	on the money, the connections, the outward appearance of things.	钱,关系,事物的外表。
129	Instead, look inward.	相反,向内看。
130	Focus on the smaller internal changes that lay the groundwork	注重内部较小的变革,以奠定基础
131	for a much larger change in fortune.	为了更大的财富变化。
132	It is the difference between grasping at an illusion and immersing yourself in reality.	这是抓住幻觉和沉浸在现实中的区别。
133	And reality is what will liberate and transform you.	现实就是解放和改造你
134	Here's how this would work in your own life.	这是在你自己的生活中如何运作的。
135	Consider the fact that each and every one of you is fundamentally unique,	想想你们每个人都是独一无二的
136	one of a kind.	某种类型的。
137	Your DNA, the particular configuration of your brain, your life experiences.	你的DNA,你大脑的特殊配置,你的生活经历。
138	In early childhood, this uniqueness manifested itself by the fact	在幼儿期,这种独特性表现在
139	that you felt particularly drawn to certain subjects and activities.	你特别喜欢某些主题和活动
140	What I call in my book mastery, primal inclinations.	我书中所说的 精通原始倾向
141	You cannot rationally explain why you felt so drawn to words or to music	你无法理性地解释为什么你觉得 如此吸引到文字或音乐
142	or to particular questions about the world around you or to social dynamics.	或者问关于你周围世界的特定问题 或者社会动态
143	As you get older, you often lose contact with these inclinations.	随着年龄的增长,你经常与这些倾向失去联系.
144	You listen to parents who urge you to follow a particular career path.	你听父母的劝告 沿着一条特殊的道路前进
145	You listen to teachers and alcoholic magazine editors	你听老师和酒类杂志编辑
146	who tell you what you're good and bad at.	谁告诉你的好坏。
147	You listen to friends who tell you what's cool and not cool.	你听朋友的,谁告诉你什么是酷,不酷。
148	At a certain point, you can almost become a stranger to yourself	在某个时候,你几乎可以成为陌生人
149	and so you enter career paths that are not suited to you emotionally and intellectually.	所以,你进入了不适合你的 情感和智力的职业道路。
150	Your life's task, as I call it, is to return to those inclinations	你的人生任务,正如我所说的, 是回到那些倾向
151	and to that uniqueness that marked each and every one of you at birth.	以及你们每个人出生时的独有性
152	At whatever age you find yourself, you must reflect back upon those earliest inclinations.	无论你发现自己在哪个年龄 你必须回想那些最早的倾向
153	You must look at those subjects in the present that continue to spark	你必须看看现在那些 继续引发的话题
154	that childlike, intense curiosity in you and you must look at those subjects	那种孩子般的强烈好奇心 你一定要看那些话题
155	and activities that you've been forced to do over the past few years	以及过去几年你被迫从事的活动
156	that repel you, that have no emotional resonance.	击退你, 没有情感共鸣。
157	Based on these reflections, you determine a direction you must take,	基于这些反省,你决定你必须走的方向,
158	writing or music or a particular branch of science or a form of business or public service.	写作或音乐,或特定的科学分支或某种形式的商业或公共服务。
159	You now have a loose overall framework within which you can explore	你现在有一个松散的总体框架 你可以在其中探索
160	and find those angles and positions that suit you best.	找到最适合你的角度和位置
161	You listen closely to yourself, to your internal radar.	你仔细听从你自己,听从你的内部雷达
162	Some parts of that framework, for me, journalism and Hollywood, do not feel right	对我,新闻和好莱坞来说,这个框架的某些部分并不正确
163	and so you move on, slowly narrowing your path, all the while accumulating skills.	所以,你继续前进, 慢慢地缩小你的道路, 所有的时间积累技能。
164	Most people want simple, direct, straight-line paths to the perfect position and to success,	大多数人想要简单,直接,直线的路径 到完美的位置和成功,
165	but instead you must welcome wrong turns and mistakes.	但你必须接受错误的转折和错误
166	They make you aware of your flaws, they widen your experiences, they toughen you up.	他们让你意识到你的缺点, 扩大你的经验, 让你更坚强。
167	If you come to this process at a later age, you must cultivate a new set of skills	如果你在晚年开始这个过程, 你必须培养一套新的技能
168	that suit this change in direction you'll be taking	适合改变方向
169	and find a way to blend them with your previous skills.	并找到一种方法 融合他们与你之前的技能。
170	Nothing in this process is ever wasted.	在这个过程中,没有任何东西是浪费的。
171	In any event, the goal that you are after is learning	无论如何,你的目标是学习
172	and the acquisition of skills, not a fat paycheck.	以及获得技能,而不是高薪。
173	Now, look at what happens to you as you adopt this very different, internally driven mindset.	现在,看看你在接受这种 完全不同的、内部驱动的思维时会怎样。
174	Because you are headed in a direction that resonates with you personally and emotionally,	因为你正朝着一个 与你个人和情感共鸣的方向前进
175	the hours of practice and study do not seem so burdensome.	练习和学习的时间似乎并不太繁琐。
176	You can sustain your attention and your interest for much longer periods of time.	你可以保持你的注意力和兴趣 更长的时间。
177	What excites you is the learning process itself,	让你兴奋的是学习过程本身,
178	overcoming obstacles, increasing your skill level.	克服障碍,提高技能水平。
179	You are immersed in the present instead of constantly obsessing over the future	你沉浸在现在 而不是不断迷恋未来
180	and so you pay greater attention to the work itself and to the people around you,	所以你更注意工作本身 以及你周围的人
181	developing patience and social intelligence.	培养耐心和社会智慧。
182	Without forcing the issue, a point is reached in which you are thoroughly prepared from within.	在不迫使这个问题发生的情况下,就达到了你从内部充分准备的地步。
183	The slightest opportunity that comes your way, you will now exploit.	只要有一点机会,你就会利用
184	In fact, you will draw opportunities to you because people will sense how prepared you are,	事实上,你会给你带来机会 因为人们会知道你有多准备,
185	which is, I believe, what happened to me with Yoast.	我相信,这就是我和尤斯特发生的事。
186	Now, some of this might sound a bit mystical,	有些事情听起来有点神秘
187	but the results of this process that I'm talking about have been corroborated by recent scientific research,	但我所说的这个过程的结果 已经得到了最近的科学研究的证实
188	most notably the 1995 study by Anders Ericsson that yielded the very famous 10,000-hour rule.	最显著的是安德斯·爱立信1995年的研究 产生了非常著名的一万小时规则
189	In tracking people who had devoted years of their lives to learning chess or music,	在追踪那些 多年来致力于学习国际象棋或音乐的人时,
190	Ericsson discovered that somewhere near that magical mark of 10,000 hours of practice,	爱立信发现,在接近 神奇标记的一万小时练习,
191	the minds of these people suddenly became much more creative and fluid.	这些人的头脑突然变得更具创造性和流动性。
192	The structures of their brains had been altered by all of those hours of practice,	他们的大脑结构 已被所有的时间练习所改变,
193	and at that 10,000-hour mark, we could see a visible transformation in their performance and their creativity.	在10000小时的时间内, 我们可以看到他们的表演和创造力的明显转变。
194	That is a level you will reach naturally and organically if you follow this process far enough.	这是你自然和有机地达到的水平,如果你足够了解这个过程。
195	Finally, what I'm proposing to you right now is actually, I think, rather radical.	最后,我现在向你们提议的是,我认为,实际上相当激进。
196	Namely, the way to transform yourself is through your work.	也就是说,转变自己的方式就是通过你的工作.
197	Now, I know this runs counter to our prevailing cultural prejudices.	我知道这与我们流行的文化偏见背道而驰。
198	Work is too ugly, too boring, too banal.	工作太丑陋 太无聊 太平凡了
199	Self-transformation, we think, comes through a spiritual journey, therapy, a guru who tells us what to do,	自我转化,我们想,通过一个精神的旅程, 治疗,一个教官 谁告诉我们该怎么做,
200	intense group experiences and social experiences and drugs.	群体经验、社会经验和毒品。
201	But most of these are ways of running away from ourselves and relieving our chronic boredom.	但这些大多是逃离我们 减轻我们长期无聊感的方法
202	They are not connected to process, and so any changes that occur don't last.	它们与过程没有联系,因此发生的任何变化都不会持续.
203	Instead, through our work, we can actually connect to who we are instead of running away.	相反,通过我们的工作,我们实际上可以联系到我们是谁,而不是逃跑。
204	And by entering that slow, organic process, we can actually change ourselves from the inside out in a way that's very real and very lasting.	通过进入这个缓慢的有机过程, 我们实际上可以从内到外 以非常真实和持久的方式改变自己。
205	This process involves a journey of self-discovery that can be seen as quite spiritual, if you like.	这个过程涉及到一段自我发现的旅程,如果你喜欢的话,这段旅程可以被看作是相当精神性的.
206	And at the end of this process, we contribute something unique and meaningful to our culture through our work,	在这一进程结束时,我们通过我们的工作为我们的文化贡献了独特和有意义的东西,
207	which is hardly ugly, boring, or banal.	这几乎不是丑陋,无聊,或平庸。
208	Thank you very much.	谢谢

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时间	英文	中文
0:01	After the publication of my first book, The 48 Laws of Power,	在我出版第一本书《48条权力法则》之后
0:06	I began to receive requests for advice from people in every conceivable profession	我开始收到来自每个职业的咨询请求
0:14	and at every level of experience.	和在每一个层次的经验。
0:17	Over the years, I have now personally consulted with over a hundred different people.	多年来,我亲自与一百多人进行了协商。
0:23	And in so many of the cases, the following scenario would play itself out.	而在很多情况下,以下的情景都会出现。
0:30	They would come to me with a specific problem, a boss from hell,	他们会来找我一个特殊的问题 一个来自地狱的老板
0:36	a business relationship that had turned ugly, a promotion that never came.	生意关系变得丑陋 升迁从未到来
0:43	I would slowly direct their attention away from the boss and the job	我会慢慢地引导他们的注意力 远离老板和工作
0:48	and instead get them to search inside themselves	让他们自己去搜
0:52	and try to find the emotional root of their discontent.	试着找到他们不满情绪的根源

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序号	英文	中文
1	After the publication of my first book, The 48 Laws of Power,	在我出版第一本书《48条权力法则》之后
2	I began to receive requests for advice from people in every conceivable profession	我开始收到来自每个职业的咨询请求
3	and at every level of experience.	和在每一个层次的经验。
4	Over the years, I have now personally consulted with over a hundred different people.	多年来,我亲自与一百多人进行了协商。
5	And in so many of the cases, the following scenario would play itself out.	而在很多情况下,以下的情景都会出现。
6	They would come to me with a specific problem, a boss from hell,	他们会来找我一个特殊的问题 一个来自地狱的老板
7	a business relationship that had turned ugly, a promotion that never came.	生意关系变得丑陋 升迁从未到来
8	I would slowly direct their attention away from the boss and the job	我会慢慢地引导他们的注意力 远离老板和工作
9	and instead get them to search inside themselves	让他们自己去搜
10	and try to find the emotional root of their discontent.	试着找到他们不满情绪的根源
11	Often, as we talked it out, they would realize that at their core,	通常,当我们谈论它, 他们会意识到,在核心,
12	they felt deeply frustrated.	他们感到很沮丧。
13	Their creativity was not being realized, their careers had somehow taken a wrong turn.	他们的创造力没有实现,他们的事业不知何故走错了方向。
14	What they actually wanted was something larger,	他们真正想要的是更大的东西,
15	a real and substantial change in their careers and in their lives.	他们的事业和生活都发生了真正的实质性变化。
16	It would be at this point that I would tell them a story about myself,	此时此刻,我会告诉他们一个关于我自己的故事,
17	about my own peculiar path to change and transformation,	关于我改变和转变的奇特道路
18	from a highly unsuccessful writer eking out an existence in a small one-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica	一个非常不成功的作家在圣莫尼卡 一间一间一间单人房的公寓里
19	to best-selling author seemingly overnight.	给畅销的作者看似一夜之间。
20	I have never publicly related this story before,	我以前从没公开提到过这个故事
21	but for this very special occasion, my first TED Talk,	但对于这个非常特殊的时刻, 我的第一次TED演讲,
22	I thought I would share it with you because it's actually very relevant to this subject of change.	我想和你们分享它,因为它实际上与这个变化的主题非常相关。
23	The story goes like this.	故事是这样的
24	I had known since my early age that I wanted to become a writer.	我从小就想成为作家
25	I just couldn't figure out what I wanted to write.	我只是不知道我想写什么
26	Perhaps it was novels or essays or plays.	也许是小说、散文或戏剧
27	After university, I drifted into journalism as a way to at least make a living while writing.	大学毕业后,我开始从事新闻工作,至少是在写作时谋生。
28	Then one day, after several years of working as a writer and editor,	然后有一天,在做作家和编辑几年之后,
29	I was having lunch with a man who had just edited an article I had written for a magazine.	我和一个刚编辑我为杂志写的文章的人共进午餐
30	After downing his third martini, this editor, an older man,	在打倒他的第三个马提尼之后,这个编辑,一个老人,
31	finally admitted to me why he had asked me to lunch.	终于承认他为什么让我吃午饭了
32	You should seriously consider a different career, he told me.	他告诉我,你应该认真考虑不同的职业
33	You are not writer material.	你不是写作的材料。
34	Your work is too undisciplined.	你的工作太没纪律了
35	Your style is too bizarre.	你的风格太奇怪了
36	Your ideas, they're just not relatable to the average.	你的想法,它们只是不能与普通人相适应。
37	Go to law school, Robert.	去法学院,罗伯特。
38	Go to business school.	去商学院吧
39	Spare yourself the pain.	少烦恼.
40	At first, these words were like a punch in the stomach.	起初,这些话就像打在胃里一样.
41	But in the months to come, I realized something about myself.	但在接下来的几个月里,我意识到了一些关于自己的事情.
42	I had entered a career that just didn't really suit me, mostly as a way to make a living.	我进入了一个并不适合我的事业, 大多是为了谋生。
43	And my work reflected this incompatibility.	我的工作反映了这种不相容性。
44	I had to get out of journalism.	我不得不离开新闻界
45	This realization initiated a period of wandering in my life.	这种认识在我生命中开始了一段徘徊的时期.
46	I traveled all across Europe.	我遍游欧洲
47	I worked every conceivable job.	我做了所有可以想象的工作。
48	I did construction work in Greece, taught English in Barcelona,	我在希腊做建筑工作 在巴塞罗那教英语
49	worked as a hotel receptionist in Paris, a tour guide in Dublin,	在巴黎做酒店接待员 都柏林的导游
50	served as a trainee for an English company making television documentaries,	担任英国公司制作电视纪录片的学员,
51	living not far from here in Brixton.	住在离布里克斯顿不远的地方
52	During all of this time, I wrote several novels that never made it past a hundred pages	在这段时间里,我写了几本小说 从未超过一百页
53	and dozens of essays that I would tear up and plays that never got produced.	和几十篇论文,我会撕裂 和演奏从未制作。
54	I wandered back to Los Angeles, California, where I was born and raised.	我回到加州洛杉矶 在那里出生长大
55	I worked in a detective agency, among other odd jobs.	我在侦探事务所工作 还有其他零工
56	I entered the film business, working as an assistant to a director,	我进入了电影行业 作为导演的助手
57	as a researcher and story developer and screenwriter.	作为研究员和故事开发者和编剧.
58	In these long years of wandering, I had totaled over 50 different jobs.	在这漫长的流浪岁月里,我总共从事了50多项不同的工作。
59	By the year 1995, my parents, God bless them,	到1995年,我的父母, 上帝保佑他们,
60	were beginning to get seriously worried about me.	开始很担心我
61	I was 36 years old, and I seemed lost and unable to settle into anything.	我当时36岁,我似乎迷路了,无法安顿下来。
62	I too had moments of doubt, but I did not feel lost.	我也有怀疑的时刻,但我并没有感到迷路。
63	I was searching and exploring, and I was hungry for experiences,	我在寻找和探索 我渴望经验
64	and I was continuously writing.	我不停地写作。
65	That same year, while in Italy for yet another job,	同年,在意大利做另一份工作时
66	I met a man there named Joost Elfers, a packager and producer of books.	我在那里遇到了一个叫Joost Elfers的人 一个书的包装者和制作人
67	One day, while we were walking along the Cays of Venice,	有一天,当我们沿着威尼斯礁行走时,
68	Joost asked me if I had any ideas for a book.	乔斯特问我有没有书的想法
69	Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, an idea just gushed out of me.	突然间 突然突然冒出一个想法
70	It was about power.	这是关于权力。
71	I told Joost that I was constantly reading books and history,	我告诉乔斯特我一直在读书和历史
72	and the stories that I read of Julius Caesar and the Borgias and Louis XIV,	我读过尤利乌斯·凯撒 博吉亚和路易十四的故事
73	these were the exact same stories that I had personally witnessed	这些跟我亲眼目睹的一样
74	with my own eyes in all of my different jobs, only less bloody.	以我自己的眼睛 在我的所有不同的工作, 只是少血腥。
75	People want power, and they want to disguise this wanting of power,	人们想要权力, 他们想伪装这种权力的匮乏,
76	and so they play games.	所以他们玩游戏。
77	They covertly manipulate and intrigue,	他们暗中操纵和阴谋
78	all the while presenting a nice, even saintly front.	展示一个美好的,甚至圣洁的正面。
79	I would expose these games.	我会揭露这些游戏
80	I gave him numerous examples of what I meant,	我给了他很多我意思的例子
81	and he became increasingly excited.	他变得越来越兴奋。
82	He said I should write a treatment, and if it was good enough,	他说我应该写一个治疗, 如果它足够好,
83	he would pay me to live while I wrote half the book,	他会付我钱让我活下来 而我写了一半的书
84	enough to sell it to a publisher.	足够卖给出版商了
85	Suddenly, in writing what would become the 48 Laws of Power,	突然间 写下了48项权力法则
86	everything in my disjointed past seemed to click into place,	我过去的一切 似乎都闪闪发光
87	like magic, like destiny.	像魔法一样 像命运一样
88	All of those various writing experiences, the journalism, the television,	所有这些不同的写作经历,新闻,电视,
89	the theater, the film, had given me the skills to tell stories	剧场,电影,给了我讲故事的技能
90	and organize my thoughts.	组织我的思想
91	All of that reading of history had given me a vast storehouse	所有的历史读物给了我一个巨大的仓库
92	of ideas that I could draw upon,	我可以利用的想法,
93	and my work as a researcher had taught me how to find the perfect anecdote.	我的研究者教我如何找到完美的传闻
94	Even those different, seemingly random jobs had exposed me	即使是那些不同的,看似随机的工作 也暴露了我
95	to every type of psychology and to the dark corners of the human psyche.	以及人类心灵的黑暗角落
96	Even the languages I learned while traveling	即使是旅行时学到的语言
97	had taught me patience and discipline.	教会了我耐心和纪律。
98	All of these experiences added up to rich layers of knowledge and practice	所有这些经验加在一起丰富多彩的知识和实践
99	that had altered me from the inside out.	从内心改变我
100	In my own very weird and intuitive way,	以我自己非常奇怪和直觉的方式,
101	I had given myself the perfect education for the writing of the 48 Laws of Power.	我给自己 完美的教育 写48条权力法则。
102	The book came out in 1998, and it was a success.	该书于1998年出版,获得了成功.
103	The course of my life was forever altered.	我一生的历程永远被改变
104	Now, the moral of this story, as I told the people who would come to me for advice,	现在,这个故事的道德, 正如我告诉人们 谁会来找我的建议,
105	and as I'm telling you now, is the following.	正如我现在告诉你的,下面是:
106	We humans tend to fixate on what we can see with our eyes.	我们人类往往把目光放在眼里
107	It is the most animal part of our nature.	这是我们本性中最动物的部分.
108	When we look at the changes and transformations in other people's lives,	当我们看别人生活中的变化和转变时,
109	we see the good luck that someone had in meeting a person like Yost	我们看见有人在遇到像Yost这样的人时的好运
110	with all of the right connections and the funding.	与所有正确的联系和资金。
111	We see the book or the project that brings the money and the attention.	我们看到了引起金钱和关注的书或项目.
112	In other words, we see the visible signs of opportunity and success	换句话说,我们看到机会和成功的明显迹象
113	change in our own lives, but we are grasping at an illusion.	改变我们自己的生活, 但我们抓住了一种幻觉。
114	What really allows for such dramatic changes	真正允许这种戏剧性变化的原因
115	are the things that occur on the inside of a person and are completely invisible.	是发生在人体内 完全看不见的东西
116	The slow accumulation of knowledge and skills,	知识和技能的缓慢积累,
117	the incremental improvements in work habits and the ability to withstand criticism.	工作习惯的逐步改善和承受批评的能力。
118	Any change in people's fortune is merely the visible manifestation	任何改变人们的财富 只是明显的表现
119	of all of that deep preparation over time.	历经漫长的准备
120	By essentially ignoring this internal invisible aspect,	基本上忽略了这个内在的无形方面,
121	we fail to change anything fundamental within ourselves.	我们无法改变我们内部任何根本的东西。
122	And so in a few years' time, we reach our limits yet again,	所以几年后 我们又到了极限
123	we grow frustrated, we crave change, we grab at something quick and superficial,	我们变得沮丧,我们渴望改变, 我们抓住的东西快速和肤浅,
124	and we remain prisoners forever of these recurring patterns in our lives.	而我们永远被囚禁 在我们生活中这些反复出现的模式。
125	The answer, the key to the ability to transform ourselves	答案 转变自我的能力的关键
126	is actually insanely simple, to reverse this perspective.	其实是疯狂的简单, 来扭转这个观点。
127	Stop fixating on what other people are saying and doing	别老是想着别人在说什么
128	on the money, the connections, the outward appearance of things.	钱,关系,事物的外表。
129	Instead, look inward.	相反,向内看。
130	Focus on the smaller internal changes that lay the groundwork	注重内部较小的变革,以奠定基础
131	for a much larger change in fortune.	为了更大的财富变化。
132	It is the difference between grasping at an illusion and immersing yourself in reality.	这是抓住幻觉和沉浸在现实中的区别。
133	And reality is what will liberate and transform you.	现实就是解放和改造你
134	Here's how this would work in your own life.	这是在你自己的生活中如何运作的。
135	Consider the fact that each and every one of you is fundamentally unique,	想想你们每个人都是独一无二的
136	one of a kind.	某种类型的。
137	Your DNA, the particular configuration of your brain, your life experiences.	你的DNA,你大脑的特殊配置,你的生活经历。
138	In early childhood, this uniqueness manifested itself by the fact	在幼儿期,这种独特性表现在
139	that you felt particularly drawn to certain subjects and activities.	你特别喜欢某些主题和活动
140	What I call in my book mastery, primal inclinations.	我书中所说的 精通原始倾向
141	You cannot rationally explain why you felt so drawn to words or to music	你无法理性地解释为什么你觉得 如此吸引到文字或音乐
142	or to particular questions about the world around you or to social dynamics.	或者问关于你周围世界的特定问题 或者社会动态
143	As you get older, you often lose contact with these inclinations.	随着年龄的增长,你经常与这些倾向失去联系.
144	You listen to parents who urge you to follow a particular career path.	你听父母的劝告 沿着一条特殊的道路前进
145	You listen to teachers and alcoholic magazine editors	你听老师和酒类杂志编辑
146	who tell you what you're good and bad at.	谁告诉你的好坏。
147	You listen to friends who tell you what's cool and not cool.	你听朋友的,谁告诉你什么是酷,不酷。
148	At a certain point, you can almost become a stranger to yourself	在某个时候,你几乎可以成为陌生人
149	and so you enter career paths that are not suited to you emotionally and intellectually.	所以,你进入了不适合你的 情感和智力的职业道路。
150	Your life's task, as I call it, is to return to those inclinations	你的人生任务,正如我所说的, 是回到那些倾向
151	and to that uniqueness that marked each and every one of you at birth.	以及你们每个人出生时的独有性
152	At whatever age you find yourself, you must reflect back upon those earliest inclinations.	无论你发现自己在哪个年龄 你必须回想那些最早的倾向
153	You must look at those subjects in the present that continue to spark	你必须看看现在那些 继续引发的话题
154	that childlike, intense curiosity in you and you must look at those subjects	那种孩子般的强烈好奇心 你一定要看那些话题
155	and activities that you've been forced to do over the past few years	以及过去几年你被迫从事的活动
156	that repel you, that have no emotional resonance.	击退你, 没有情感共鸣。
157	Based on these reflections, you determine a direction you must take,	基于这些反省,你决定你必须走的方向,
158	writing or music or a particular branch of science or a form of business or public service.	写作或音乐,或特定的科学分支或某种形式的商业或公共服务。
159	You now have a loose overall framework within which you can explore	你现在有一个松散的总体框架 你可以在其中探索
160	and find those angles and positions that suit you best.	找到最适合你的角度和位置
161	You listen closely to yourself, to your internal radar.	你仔细听从你自己,听从你的内部雷达
162	Some parts of that framework, for me, journalism and Hollywood, do not feel right	对我,新闻和好莱坞来说,这个框架的某些部分并不正确
163	and so you move on, slowly narrowing your path, all the while accumulating skills.	所以,你继续前进, 慢慢地缩小你的道路, 所有的时间积累技能。
164	Most people want simple, direct, straight-line paths to the perfect position and to success,	大多数人想要简单,直接,直线的路径 到完美的位置和成功,
165	but instead you must welcome wrong turns and mistakes.	但你必须接受错误的转折和错误
166	They make you aware of your flaws, they widen your experiences, they toughen you up.	他们让你意识到你的缺点, 扩大你的经验, 让你更坚强。
167	If you come to this process at a later age, you must cultivate a new set of skills	如果你在晚年开始这个过程, 你必须培养一套新的技能
168	that suit this change in direction you'll be taking	适合改变方向
169	and find a way to blend them with your previous skills.	并找到一种方法 融合他们与你之前的技能。
170	Nothing in this process is ever wasted.	在这个过程中,没有任何东西是浪费的。
171	In any event, the goal that you are after is learning	无论如何,你的目标是学习
172	and the acquisition of skills, not a fat paycheck.	以及获得技能,而不是高薪。
173	Now, look at what happens to you as you adopt this very different, internally driven mindset.	现在,看看你在接受这种 完全不同的、内部驱动的思维时会怎样。
174	Because you are headed in a direction that resonates with you personally and emotionally,	因为你正朝着一个 与你个人和情感共鸣的方向前进
175	the hours of practice and study do not seem so burdensome.	练习和学习的时间似乎并不太繁琐。
176	You can sustain your attention and your interest for much longer periods of time.	你可以保持你的注意力和兴趣 更长的时间。
177	What excites you is the learning process itself,	让你兴奋的是学习过程本身,
178	overcoming obstacles, increasing your skill level.	克服障碍,提高技能水平。
179	You are immersed in the present instead of constantly obsessing over the future	你沉浸在现在 而不是不断迷恋未来
180	and so you pay greater attention to the work itself and to the people around you,	所以你更注意工作本身 以及你周围的人
181	developing patience and social intelligence.	培养耐心和社会智慧。
182	Without forcing the issue, a point is reached in which you are thoroughly prepared from within.	在不迫使这个问题发生的情况下,就达到了你从内部充分准备的地步。
183	The slightest opportunity that comes your way, you will now exploit.	只要有一点机会,你就会利用
184	In fact, you will draw opportunities to you because people will sense how prepared you are,	事实上,你会给你带来机会 因为人们会知道你有多准备,
185	which is, I believe, what happened to me with Yoast.	我相信,这就是我和尤斯特发生的事。
186	Now, some of this might sound a bit mystical,	有些事情听起来有点神秘
187	but the results of this process that I'm talking about have been corroborated by recent scientific research,	但我所说的这个过程的结果 已经得到了最近的科学研究的证实
188	most notably the 1995 study by Anders Ericsson that yielded the very famous 10,000-hour rule.	最显著的是安德斯·爱立信1995年的研究 产生了非常著名的一万小时规则
189	In tracking people who had devoted years of their lives to learning chess or music,	在追踪那些 多年来致力于学习国际象棋或音乐的人时,
190	Ericsson discovered that somewhere near that magical mark of 10,000 hours of practice,	爱立信发现,在接近 神奇标记的一万小时练习,
191	the minds of these people suddenly became much more creative and fluid.	这些人的头脑突然变得更具创造性和流动性。
192	The structures of their brains had been altered by all of those hours of practice,	他们的大脑结构 已被所有的时间练习所改变,
193	and at that 10,000-hour mark, we could see a visible transformation in their performance and their creativity.	在10000小时的时间内, 我们可以看到他们的表演和创造力的明显转变。
194	That is a level you will reach naturally and organically if you follow this process far enough.	这是你自然和有机地达到的水平,如果你足够了解这个过程。
195	Finally, what I'm proposing to you right now is actually, I think, rather radical.	最后,我现在向你们提议的是,我认为,实际上相当激进。
196	Namely, the way to transform yourself is through your work.	也就是说,转变自己的方式就是通过你的工作.
197	Now, I know this runs counter to our prevailing cultural prejudices.	我知道这与我们流行的文化偏见背道而驰。
198	Work is too ugly, too boring, too banal.	工作太丑陋 太无聊 太平凡了
199	Self-transformation, we think, comes through a spiritual journey, therapy, a guru who tells us what to do,	自我转化,我们想,通过一个精神的旅程, 治疗,一个教官 谁告诉我们该怎么做,
200	intense group experiences and social experiences and drugs.	群体经验、社会经验和毒品。
201	But most of these are ways of running away from ourselves and relieving our chronic boredom.	但这些大多是逃离我们 减轻我们长期无聊感的方法
202	They are not connected to process, and so any changes that occur don't last.	它们与过程没有联系,因此发生的任何变化都不会持续.
203	Instead, through our work, we can actually connect to who we are instead of running away.	相反,通过我们的工作,我们实际上可以联系到我们是谁,而不是逃跑。
204	And by entering that slow, organic process, we can actually change ourselves from the inside out in a way that's very real and very lasting.	通过进入这个缓慢的有机过程, 我们实际上可以从内到外 以非常真实和持久的方式改变自己。
205	This process involves a journey of self-discovery that can be seen as quite spiritual, if you like.	这个过程涉及到一段自我发现的旅程,如果你喜欢的话,这段旅程可以被看作是相当精神性的.
206	And at the end of this process, we contribute something unique and meaningful to our culture through our work,	在这一进程结束时,我们通过我们的工作为我们的文化贡献了独特和有意义的东西,
207	which is hardly ugly, boring, or banal.	这几乎不是丑陋,无聊,或平庸。
208	Thank you very much.	谢谢

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